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...together the world of Pogo, an inspired amalgam of bogs, hollow stumps, hog-jowl dialect and cheery absurdity. There, over 150 anthropomorphic critters gnawed away at the English language, baring kernels of political meaning, and carried on not-so-innocent satires of human pomposity. Phineas T. Bridgeport, the Barnum of bears, orated in billboard letters that burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland Owl, a bedraggled Perelmanesque pedant. Churchy LaFemme, a poetic turtle, reveled in alliterative aubades: "Whence that wince, my wench?" At Christmas time, Albert the cigar...
Kelly, who grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., began learning his art from his father, a theatrical scene painter. He edited the high school paper and drew cartoons for it as well. After working as a reporter for the Bridgeport Post, he went to Hollywood in 1935 as an animator at Walt Disney Studios...
...Huskies, currently number three in New England, are sporting a 5-2 record with a loss to Bridgeport and defending National champions, the University of St. Louis. Harvard has been dropping all season from its initial number-three ranking to its present number-nine slot...
Marrone also added that he is looking forward to next Friday, when Connecticut's varsity visits Cambridge for a game with Bruce Munro's Crimson. The Huskies currently sport a 5-2 record, having lost only to St. Louis and Bridgeport...
Died. Samuel Flagg Bemis, 81, longtime professor of diplomatic history at Yale (1935-60) who won two Pulitzer Prizes: in 1927 for Pinckney's Treaty, an outline of U.S. relations with Spain, and in 1950 for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; in Bridgeport, Conn...